The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


The human race now looks for the
man who can furnish the means by
which a brass band can practice in
silence. Garden City Sentinel.
"A man fishing on the Kinchefoone
Greek, in Georgia, got bite and saw
his cork go down like shot. He be.
gan pulling in, but had to call for help,
and landed a turtle weighing zoe
pounds.
While repairing an old log house
near Dunbar Camp, Fayette County,
Pa, John Robuck found well-pre-
served oak box, which, when opened,
was found to contain 81, 260 in gold
and silver
The man who blows the corneU in
a rural brass band down in Maine is
six feet and ten inches tall and the
band is looking for drum major that
won't look like midget prancing in
front of him.
"A hive of bees was found under a
cornice that was being repaired last
week on a house in Salem, Mass. and
after the insects had been smothered a
store of honey amounting to a tub and
q half was secured.
-Mamma-'Now, BERTHE, l want
you to tell me the truth and not go
around Robin Hoods barn" Berthe
IL amt been around Mr.. Hoods barn.
1t was Mr.. James. How did you
know?"
rri1, Of hrDAe%Anlr
walked from Ashland to Portage lake,
rowed across the lake, ate their dinner
aud returned to Ashland in the after
noon, having travelled eighteen miles
The same girls can travel on snow
shoes, ride horses, milk. teach school
and play the piano.
"A st. Louis voodoo doctor got a
sum of money from colored woman,
promising to cure her sick child. He
went for medicine but did not return.
The woman hunted him up and held a
hickory club over his head until she
could send for policeman and secure
his arrest.
"A pianist at concert had been
pounding away at the same stupid
piece for over half an hour There s
nothing strange about that" said some
one; ''he's deaf and can't hear HIM
self" Then" remarked Jones,
you'd better signal to him that he's
got through. "-Judge.
"A cat belonging to Scranton, Pa,
man is eXtravagantly fond of organ
and guitar music, but if her master
play on the violin she will dart at him
as if seized with fit, scratch him
viciously and squall as though in great
pain. As soon as he lays the violin
down she will trot up to him, rub her
head and back lovingly against his
ankles and purr contentedly.
The following is list of the heav-
lest hammers in Europe from an his
torical point of view: FIR. Krupp,
Essen, 1868, forty tons; Terni Works,
Italy, 1873, fifty tons; Creusot, France,
1887, eighty tons; CockFil!, Belgium,
1885, one hundred tons; Fir. Krupp,
Essen, 1885. one hundred and fifty tons.
The last is now the heaviest steam
hammer in the world.
The carrying capacity of n railway
car of ten tons has been figured on by
somebody, who gives this rs a result:
Wheat, $40 bushels corn, 400 bushels;
potatoes, 43O bushels; apples, $40 bush
els; oats, $50 bushels; lumber, 6,0OC
feet; butter, 10000 pounds; flour, 80
barrels; whisky, GO barrels; wood, SIX
cords; cattle, IS to 20 head; hogs, so to
so head, and sheep, 80 to 100.
AT funeral the other day al
Colona, Ia, it was noticed that the
face of the dead was covered with per
spiration, and, although wiped away
by the undertaken. large drops Of
moisture soon gathered again. The
body was buried, however, and now
many residents of the town assert theii
belief that the supposed dead man was
buried alive.
Omaha Teacher-"Did you all give
attention to the story OF David and Go
liah?" Class-"Yes 'm." Now, why
did that contest take placer" Little
girl-'So the big armies wouldn't have
to fight and so many get killed" Cor
rect. Now. why was it that a you'll
like David was able to conquer gian
like GOLIATH" Little boy (recentl,
from Boston)-"' Cause they didn'
fight 'cordin' to Queensberry rules. -
Omaha World
"A young man named Doring, whit
was shot at West Troy, N. Y, a few
days ago, visited church in Troy re
Gently and there heard friend sing
solo, of which he thought so well tina
at the close of the services he said T.
his friend in jest: Il wish you woul'
sing solo at my funeral" a will,
said the friend. At the funeral of MI
Doring the musical service comprises
a single solo. 1t was sung by tn
friend, who thus redeemed his promise
Doring was shot by policeman, VIII
mistook him for robber.
-Homestake mine, near Deadwood
has railroad twenty-five miles Ion
to the pineries where fuel is obtained
and tho road aniS at the ton of a hio.